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 1788 - Aft 1830 (43 years)
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| Name |
Matilda Hembree |
| Suffix |
of Cherokee blood |
| Birth |
1788 |
South Carolina  [1] |
- Matilda Hembree b. 1788 SC d.aft 1830 NC dau. of Abraham Hembree
This Matilda is our “Cherokee” Matilda: displaying the scandalous boldness and independence of her Cherokee tribal aunts.
See notes on her elsewhere and her separate family sheet.
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| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
Aft 1830 |
(North Carolina) [1] |
| Person ID |
I48837 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
6 Apr 2019 |
| Father |
Abraham Hembree, b. 16 May 1757, Spartanburg County, South Carolina d. ~19 Oct 1835, (Chattanooga) Hamilton County, Tennessee (Age 78 years) |
| Mother |
Winnifred Jackson, b. 1760-1780, (South Carolina) d. ~1808, (Spartanburg County, South Carolina) (Age 28 years) |
| Marriage |
(Spartanburg County, South Carolina) [1, 2, 3] |
| Residence (Family) |
North Carolina, a British Colony of America [3] |
| Residence (Family) |
Spartanburg County, South Carolina [1] |
| Family ID |
F3846 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Joseph Hembree, b. 1779, Rutherford County, North Carolina d. 28 Dec 1867, Kingston, Roane County, Tennessee (Age 88 years) |
| Marriage |
Y [1] |
- His first marriage to Matilda Hembree is not proven.
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| Separated |
BY 1812 |
Roane County, Tennessee [1] |
| Residence (Family) |
1830 |
Roane County, Tennessee [1] |
| Residence (Family) |
1840 |
Roane County, Tennessee [1] |
| Residence (Family) |
1850 |
Roane County, Tennessee [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. James Madison "Mat or Nat" Hembree, b. 1809, Burke County, North Carolina d. 30 Apr 1882, Gilmer County, Georgia (Age 73 years) |
| | 2. Abraham Hembree, b. 1811, North Carolina d. 1860, Georgia (Age 49 years) |
| | 3. Lucinda Hembree, b. 1813, North Carolina |
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| Family ID |
F18041 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Matilda Hembree b.1788 SC d. aft. 1830 m. --- Hembree??
I think Matilda married Joseph Hembree (b.1779) but they separated by 1812 and he remarried. (See separate family sheet.) Matilda and 3 or so children are listed in Abraham’s household in the 1820 census.
Matilda and her children went up to North Carolina and she is shown as a head of household in the 1830 Census. She had at least two children out of wedlock. Her oldest child appears to be James M. Hembree (b.1809) (see separate family sheet). Did she die or remarry after 1830?
Matilda made things interesting for the Goucher Baptist Church, scandalizing the whole family and vexing her father Abraham (who got into a fist fight at his 64th birthday party defending Matilda’s honor).
In March 1826 the church called her to answer for charges of fornication. She refused to respond and was excommunicated. Her son James M. Hembree was granted a more honorable exit from the church a month later (they were moving up to North Carolina anyway).
Children of Matilda Hembree and Joseph? Hembree :
James M. Hembree b.1809 NC d. 30 Apr 1882 GA
m(1) Nancy Floyd
m(2) Sarah Jane Buchanan
m(3) Martha Payne (or Pain) (See family sheet.)
Abraham (=J. Abraham?) Hembree b. 1811 NC d.c. 1860 GA
m. Levina Floyd (b.1813) -- dau of John Floyd (see Nancy b.1794, Abraham’s dau)
daughter b.c. 1813 NC (1820 census Abraham Hembree household)
Children of Matilda Hembree and unknown:
Jane b.c. 1818 NC (1830 census see 1860 Murray Co, GA, sister of James M. Hembree)
daughter b.c. 1822 NC (1830 census)
daughter b.c. 1826 NC (1830 census) (grand-daughter?)
end of commentary [1]
- Matilda is fooling around ...
May 19, 1821
Brother Hembree came to the Church and said he was informed by his daughter Polly that Jack Weaks had threatened to go to his daughter Matilda and behave himself unseemly toward Matilda. Brother Hembree said when he heard it, it put him in such a passion that he went to the ed of the house and listened a considerable he saw him leaning on the bed and there was a fight. Brother Pettet was appointed to talk to Metilda Hembree. Pettet reported that Brother Hembree's and Metilda's stories did not agree.
About five years later Matilda would be cited by the church on charges of fornication. She refused to report and was excommunicated. Shortly after, she moved back up to North Carolina and then Abraham and household moved up there as well. (Follow-up on Hugh Moore: he became a minister and remained close to the church and to the Hembree family. Another Hugh Moore lived in Pendleton District near the Keowee River and had other lands on the waters of the Saluda River. Both of these Moores are probably unrelated to our Moores.)
I think Matilda married a Hembree (Joseph? Hezekiah?) but he died or left before 1820, so Matilda and 4 or so children are listed in Abraham's household in the 1820 census. (Hezekiah was alive in 1837, living in GA, I believe. Joseph is said to have married Sarah Melton by 1812.) Matilda and her children went up to North Carolina and she is shown as a head of household in the 1830 Census. She had at least two children in her widowhood. Her oldest child appears to be James M. Hembree (b.1809) (see below for more info on him). Did she die or remarry after 1830?
Matilda made things interesting for the Goucher Baptist Church, scandalizing the whole family and vexing her father Abraham (who got into a fist fight at his 64th birthday party defending Matilda's honor). In March 1826 the church called her to answer for charges of fornication. She refused to respond and was excommunicated. Her son James M. Hembree was granted a more honorable exit from the church a month later (they were moving up to North Carolina anyway).
end of note [4]
- Conflicts on these applications (for reimbursement and for land in Oklahoma)
1) Mahala contradicts herself in saying "Abraham Hembree lived to be over 100 years old" and "My Grand Father Abram Hembree was born in the Cherokee Nation in the year 1793." She has Abraham living in Hamilton County, TN in 1851. All three of these are wrong.
2) She was sure about when and where she was born (November 3, 1829 Rutherford County, NC) and sure her father James M. Hembree was born in North Carolina as well. Abraham did not move to that area until 1828.
There is evidence that James M. Hembree left South Carolina in 1826 (a letter of release from the church) and he appears in the 1830 census for Rutherford Co, NC.
There is evidence that Matilda Hembree, Abraham's daughter, married a Hembree before 1810 and moved to North Carolina, had two sons there, but returned to her father's household by 1820. (Her sister Elizabeth also married a Hembree after 1810 and moved to NC.) Matilda was dismissed by the same church a month before James M. was. Matilda and James M. resided nearby in the 1830 census and they both are gone by 1840.
Mahala knew she was the oldest surviving child of James M. but knew she had a brother who was born & died in 1827. She does not give a birth date for her father, but might have had 1810 in mind (1793+17 = 1810, 1810+17 = 1827).
Although Mahala attempts to prove that James M. is a son of Abraham, she actually proves that he is a grandson, the son of Matilda, as it turns out. But since he was raised as a son, Abraham is fairly considered his father.
end of comment [4]
- I think Matilda married a Hembree (Joseph? Hezekiah?) but he died or left before 1820, so Matilda and 4 or so children are listed in Abraham's household in the 1820 census. (Hezekiah was alive in 1837, living in GA, I believe. Joseph is said to have married Sarah Melton by 1812.) Matilda and her children went up to North Carolina and she is shown as a head of household in the 1830 Census. She had at least two children in her widowhood. Her oldest child appears to be James M. Hembree (b.1809) (see below for more info on him). Did she die or remarry after 1830?
Matilda made things interesting for the Goucher Baptist Church, scandalizing the whole family and vexing her father Abraham (who got into a fist fight at his 64th birthday party defending Matilda's honor). In March 1826 the church called her to answer for charges of fornication. She refused to respond and was excommunicated. Her son James M. Hembree was granted a more honorable exit from the church a month later (they were moving up to North Carolina anyway). [4]
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| Sources |
- [S11150] "The Abraham Hembree Data Project", Revision - February 2004, by Larry Petrisky, (larry_petrisky@hotmail.com), edited by.
- [S13762] Hembree,Robert:conservator & genealogist for the HEMBREE family,.
- [S11124] Notes on the English and Cherokee ancestry of JOHN HEMBREE, WILLIAM EMORY, DRURY HEMBREE, ABRAHAM HEMBREE, ISAAC AMORY.
- [S11123] "The Abraham Hembree Data Project Revision - February 2004", by Larry Petrisky, larry_petrisky@hotmail.com,, edited by.
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